Scalia can fuck off right now
Jun. 25th, 2008 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdSupreme Court Justice Anton Scalia referred to "30" former gitmo prisoners who had "returned to the battlefield" in his dissent in the 5-4 ruling that 900 years of Anglo-Saxon legal tradition and the plain letter of the Constitution both actually matter, and you can't just declare the right to protest your arbitrary imprisonment to a court void.
Obsidian Wings tracked down some of those "30" who had "returned to the battlefield." Included are two (2) who actually did return to a battlefield and were recaptured. Also included are three (3) who appeared in the film The Road to Guantanamo. One gave an interview to the New York Times. Another wrote an op-ed for the same paper (click to read). All of these were ruled "hostile acts" by the Pentagon.
The list has since been revised to 12, six of which are new, indicating that six of the original supposed 30 are still considered by the DoD to have "returned to the battlefield" in some sense. (One was arrested in Germany, in an apartment; two are alleged to be working for militant groups but there is no way to check the claim; I don't know about the sixth.)
More at Obsidian Wings.
Obsidian Wings tracked down some of those "30" who had "returned to the battlefield." Included are two (2) who actually did return to a battlefield and were recaptured. Also included are three (3) who appeared in the film The Road to Guantanamo. One gave an interview to the New York Times. Another wrote an op-ed for the same paper (click to read). All of these were ruled "hostile acts" by the Pentagon.
The list has since been revised to 12, six of which are new, indicating that six of the original supposed 30 are still considered by the DoD to have "returned to the battlefield" in some sense. (One was arrested in Germany, in an apartment; two are alleged to be working for militant groups but there is no way to check the claim; I don't know about the sixth.)
More at Obsidian Wings.
